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the produce of the preceding year, should be ap plied to the service of the present. Me then ac quainted the House that he should not move for a greater supply than ten millions of Exchequer Bills at that time, and whilst Mr. Hume and others considered this sum unreasonably great, Mr.Maberley regarded it as a proof that the Go vernment was anxious to withdraw from circulation too large a quantity of that sort of security. The Hon. Gentleman also stated that the Bank had gone in the market yesterday and bought up Ex chequer Bills, by which their price had been raised full twenty shillings, and there had been a great issue and increase of the circulating me dium. Mr. Berries confirmed this important fact, the occurrence of which we anticipated yester day,, and stated that it had taken place with the privity and bauction of Government. 44 Before the Bank of England had gone into the market to purchase, as it had done yesterday, Exchequer Bills, it had previously been apprized of the sentiments of Government on that head—so that Tlll.l LONDON -J 0 UltiV A I.S. DA 114 Y. Extracts, front the Morning Pqiers, Feb. 16 ) 1826. ITUE PUBLIC .LEDGER.I We havireceived the Paris papers of Monday,, with the Eiorile of Tttesdayo On the former day the Reales sustained another fall to the amount, of one 'per cent., originating entirely, we pre• same, in the deplerable state of our own market. The internal situation of France evidently affords no clue to it ; and it would be useless to seek it in her foreign rel ations, which, with the excep tion perhaps of her Spanish connexion, have not presented so tranquilizing an aspect for the last ten years. At home every thing seems to go on prosperensly—her agriculture is thriving ; her cOmmerce and manufactures were never so flourishing, whilst the public revenue so far exceeds the expenditure, that, though an in creased provision is to be made for the Clergy, there is to be a reduction of taxes to the amount of 15 millions this year. Of this state of things the French nation has a right to be proud ; and, fur our own part, so far from envying, we sin cerely rejoice at it ; for the French having. once tasted of the sweets of peace, will learn in time toippreciate their value justly. In the sharp access of fever by which our own commerce is visited at this moment, we have cause to he grate ful, that no cause of anxiety is superadded from abroad, and we may therefore reasonably hope, seeing the excellent stamina of this country, that the violence of the disease will subside soon. Imagination has done, if not all, at least the . greater part, of the mischief; and if once the , public mind could be divested of its: imaginary terrors, the cure would speedily follow. The distress, occasioned by it is indeed lamentable but it would betray a gross or wilful ignorance of the national resources to trace it to any other cause but overtrading,.aggravated by the vicious state of the currency. The panic, which'caused the late run upon the. banks, has already sub sided entirely in the metropolis, and, for the greater part, in the provincial towns. It Is our firm belief, notwithstanding many disheartening appearances, that the end of our commercial em barrassments likewise, is not 60 far off as malty seem to imagine ; for tbat.,eare self-preserva tion,which non , prevails whilst thellorrit is rag ing will shortly give way, or we are wonderfully mistaken, to feelings more.. becoMing Mercantile men. The news from St. Petersburgh is to -the .:10th.ull: up to which , period, the public tranquil lity had sustained:DO new shock. At this date, the Altiliduke Ferdinand d'Este, brother-in-law to the Emperor of Austria, was expected to arrive from 4„)11p mottleliVto another. .Not, a wordis said of disturbances in any other part'of the Empire ; and to a rotneur„ that oufavourable tidings had been received from the army in:Bessarabia, there is a flat contradiction 'it) the Etude, if there. be any value in this formal thenial„, we, Ittnat treat , the rumour of part, of the army having crossed the Pruth as a fabrication. indeedi We are persuaded that it is nothingelse, as it wealth have been confirmed before this, thiough more than one channel, had it been true. The Cirand 1)ul Constantine, too, dectitS tleterinititql to OVerttalt Mikity ingettiOUS speculations ; and, as we dealt in them , as Übe rally us otlp.rs, es e hasten to make the ermende lw norolote:admitting that they were more specious thatusolid. in point of fact that measure was attributable to his Majesty's Ministers." The Honourable Gentleman then obtained several other necessary votes, and afterwards brought in the Small Notes Abolition Bill, which was read a first time, and was ordered for a second reading to-morrow. [NEw rrtmEs.] We perceive, with pleasure, that the public may expeot from the Chancellor of the Exche quer, a statement of his opinions on the Usury Laws. Mr. Peel, who announced this circum stance, spoke with due reserve on the general merits of the question. He seemed unwilling to anticipate his Right lion. Friend in a matter falling more particularly within the department of the latter ; but from the little that escaped him, we could gather that the sentiments of the Right Honourable Secretary were rather favourable than adverse to the removal of the restrictions , on the interest of money. Still this is a matter of so much importance in its practical results, that we are satisfied it will not be disposed of, without practical evidence. The late circumstance of the commercial and monied world will probably afford such evidence. It may be easy to trace the influence of the existing law, either ns a pro tection, or as an incumbrance, to parties involved in the embarrassments which have so much en dtmgered the fabric of public credit. For our own part, we reserve our judgment on the Usury Laws till we have the advantage of hearing them discussed by such high authorities, and on such substantial grounds. Nothing is easier than to form a fine spun theory on a subject of this na ture, hut to sift anti rxinnine It in all its bearings, demands the patient and perseverinqpirit which characterises the official labours of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Pariti Papers of i‘londay that arrived last night, are very' uttinteresting. The Joternal tin authority or its Frankfort Cor respondent, states that the Emperor Nicholas is 1091.4 tO tato. ft 14)111 . It) MOW() v and thi! southern o r o;i 9 ces of hi', itinpiov, and afterwterds malie reconnoislemee of the , armies of the South and West, His Itorerial MajeFty subsequently in tends: to sisit Warsaw,,, and proceed kvith the Grand Duke Constantine to 13essarahia, from vrheoce, it' seems, a 'threatening demonstration will be madaylowards Wallachia and Moldavia, if the Port e pfrsigts in retaininginillitary,pos,ses• situ" of tl t O4e priticipalitie's. The Quotitifenne publishes a paragraph from Trieste of the 31st of 411fIllOry, which is very, sarcastic in its r e marks upon the titatenif”ts,t!mt have lately appeared in Of" French and German journals, relative to the l''tdvatttage , i they haveatinonneed that the Greeks have gained over their. npputienG. `fhe writer remarks," It is extraordinary that intelligence front Corfu should reach 'Paris Lnd Augsburgh before it arrives here." The Cou.riei• Francais gives a report that the hterines had declared War iigainsi Spain, By an article from - 13russels Of the Bth inst. it pl►ears that smite difficulties, have among the c!ervy there about die religious ceremony to be tried at the intermentof David, the painter, who had not caned in the assistance of religion' at . his demit. :These dill'. calties had however. been removed, and the fune ral was to take place on4-the [MORNING cuttoNto.c.] A premature discussion took ~phice„.iast night on the Usury Laws, in the course of which, in the absence of Abe Chanceller of the .Ex4equer (from indisposition, it was said), Mr. Peel stated that the subject would be taken up by•Mirdsters, and that he believed. the Chancellor of the Exchequer would 'be. fully prepared to explain the opinions,:of.,o4 .Government on the second reading of Mr. Serjeant Onslow's !WV—The. Right Honourable Gentleman added, that, " No one, he apprehended, could have the least doubt as to the principle of the ,Bill which the Learned Serjeant sought- to amend, and he felt .bound to say, that:it was with him a very serious question, whether, in the present state of society, the operation of the usury laws had not contributed, in a most unfortunate,degree, to extend the mischief of the late distress."—We believe the feeling is now almost universal, among commercial men, that the , trade in money should be perfectly free. Some of the Members, be longing to the trading world, adduced several striking instances of mischief occasioned of late by the restraint imposed by the Usury C~alVs. The country gent,lemen, however, are not all of the opinion of the commercial men. Can they really imagine, that, if the market rate be above the legal rate, any , one. will either lend them money on mortgage, or allow money so lent to continue in their hands, at or pelow the legal rate, when the resource of annuity is alway s a t nut, as Mr. Davies observed, the Country °""kulell, if they have a taste for ruinous ex pedients, and dealing uith lenders on annuities, may have that tasty. gratified by excepting land from 14, operation of the 11111. it would be hard, however, if the busy part of the community were to be exposed to difficulties, on account oral) apprehension which the Country G entletne it seem alone to entertaio. LYI u l N i Nis piniTA In the if O f Cominims last 1014114 I%lr. Sergeant ()itilow inoit9sed his uswil Bill•to re peal the Intioting agitinit , Varied opinions vp Pre eXptefisi , ti about this measure, the dangers of which it li:t!,.be;•11 our annual task to point out, and our good fortune to be . instru+ mental in proventing. That greatet efforts w ill tae requiiell this Session to ' Protect riroperty against the rapacity of money lenders and' the recklessness of heirs, fritly be anticip:tted from the intimation given by Mr. Secretary . Peel - that hi IVlajesty's Mini,ters may paisibly think it their duty , to support the Bill, or tit lea,t, sonic of it. Others prapusra that it should In. applicahlo 10 traders alone, and that tite e(I i nte reA should be ex,rluded fluor its opera tion, b i y which HI V 311% the measure would become a n ii ? re e4ntrictient, on a very limited scale. As the Chancellor of the FAchetitier.ii to expreO the V WS of .Governatelit ost the subiect when the shall he read a e,COI.RI OW, abstain front making further l oir.,ervations k",„ the e xtent anti -nature of the alterations Which the measure may Tt.te n° 1 " 0 went into a COmmittee o f ‘VaYs and. Meang, in which Mr. Ilerries moved th it a surplui of 3,500,000/. remaining in the Exchequer, out of modity itself of which they are treating shrinks from their contact, and immediately retrogrades in value, to an extent which involves hundreds in [Talc REPRESENTATIVE.] At this period of, we fear we must say, unex ampled distress, it is truly shocking to observe with what unfeeling levity false reports affecting the credit of particular houses are every day cir culated in the city, and thence over every part of the Metropolis. Such reports cannot go abroad at this moment in regard to the most respect able establishment without inflicting a posi tive injury ; and we could point several in stances in which they have produced the most disastrous consequences..--- We put it to the feelings 3 of every honourable man of business, whether any thing can be more per nicious, and consequently more deserving of re probation, than the common practice at which we have now glanced. We are aware, that in some instances, these whisperings arise from the unreflecting thoughtlessness that gives a willing ear to the floating rumours which amuse the idle or the imbecile mind ; but in too many cases they originate, we fear, in a darker and more culpable source. • They proceed, too frequently, from en vious malignity which extracts honied enjoyment from the bitter spring of human misfortune. There are, we lament to think, in the mercantile world, men who look upon a ruined acquaintance as a competitor removed out of the way. The attack upon confidence is universal, and it can only be met at individual points ; and let no man dream that, while things are in their present condition, he can take care of himself, while lie is heedless of his neighbour. We know of only one way in which the unjust and cruel folly alluded to can be effectually checked. Let the gentleman who, in the course of the day, hears any report of the kind we have mentioned, go nt once boldly and manfully to the house interested, and tell there what he had heard, and from whom. We ven ture to predict, that the day after this had hap pened, every body would be rendered becom ingly cautious and circtlmspect. [Tile TIMES.I This anxious mission, which removes the Duke of Wellington to St. Petersburgh at such a season, and in a state of health so precarious, has doubt less been the result of mature consideration, with regard as well to the objects contemplated us to means of attaining them. Of these objects there is a negative and a positive—to prevent, as We seid'before, the invasion of Turkey, and to se cure! the liberty of Greece. We have. :reason to rely upon the representations made to us, that the national feeling of the Russians is rather one of religious Sympathy with their Greek brethren, and of anxiety to release: them from the :hands of the infidels, than any eagerness for offensive measures against the Turks. It is plain, there fore, that the natural operation of such a feeling F would present no obstacles to that mode of ar ranging the etrairs of Greece and Turkey which is sought fors by the western.-nnd southern States of Christendom—viz. a peaceful settlement, brought about by amicable negotiation. But it is likewiSe obvious enough, that the Court of Russia may be actuated by.a sentiment very different from that which inspires the Russian people. The people may be honest in their zeal or fanaticism, while the Government may be selfish In its em• bition, so that , a War, begun In simulated F furs therance of the • popular wish, may be.prosecuted in a spirit, and may terminate in results, the most alien to the professions with which it was under taken. We do not say Unit such things will hap pen ; but Europe ought ,to be prepared for all contingencies, nor suffer herself to be sur prised at seeing the fraternal eagerness of the Russian peOple'' on behalf of Greece taken advantage of by the Cabinet of Saint Peters. burgh, to forward its own schemes of temporal aggradizement at the expellee of 'Turkey. If the Russians have actually passed the. Pruth, and commenced hestilities, the Duke of Wel lington may find himself anticipated and em barrassed ; -but still with a powerful game, within his grasp. In insisting upon nit imme diate abandonment of such art, enterprise by • Russia, his Grace Imo!!! have every Ambassador from every State in Europe • with him. The • single point of foreign policy on which France and England may be presumed to go heartily haunt 'in hand, is that of leeeping doWn the spirit of rig. grandizement which has so fearfully illustrated the reigueof Catherine ff. and of her deceased grandson. On France, therefore, we mint seckon with confidence, if her Ministers under stand their duty. Austria already sees' the Muscovites at her gates ; she has them for her neighbours within a few marches of Vienna, and they border her territory for, bun- Diroarmses neitals.} dreds of leagues, until both frontiers are met by Mr. Baring, iti the course of the late debate that of Turkey. To a partition of Turkey, on the currency, remerkedi very justly, on the frowned upon by the whole west of Europ e , proneness of Parliament to listen to and be led Austria would hardly lend, herself. That of away by eloquent men, in preference to the sober Poland has already given the lion's share to her views, but less Bowery harangues, of practical formidable rivet. With the three great Powers men of business. The evil is one which is not alluded to unanimous against her attack upon the confined to Parliament ; but ; has ever been the Porte, Russia, we believe, would hesitate l ong bane of this country ) us it was that of Conti- befOre she braved. their military opposition. If nental States ; and fernishes, a striking proof it be said that the army and people of Russia of the power of tics imagleatiob over the are vehement in their desire to befriend the understanding, and of Ow , 'readiness with Greeks, and deaf al the same time to the ealeulti• which mankhol in general are led to con- tionS of prudence, there is an easy way of settling fide in and .adopt that which- they. edMire.— that favourite point to their satisfaction. England Persons who are in the habit of serving upon need only say, " I w ill help to establish the in. uries seta and feel,: this continually ; and the "dependence of Greece, Austria, will co-operate, greatest difticolty a Juror has, is to keop his Mind " and France will 'countenance' the' arrangement. regardless of the " Withdraw attentively fixed upon facto , your armies, therefore, from the false or speCiQUI COlOOlll4 5514. h ingenious arid Pruth and Danube; you shall attain your object eloquent advocates can give to them. No dues- "at a less expellee than that of a wasteful, Lion perhaps !t a g e v e rs been more thoron4bly 1 44 and, with us for y o ur enemies, a saegui ll a s y vestigeted than this one of Ow con eet , l', and pro. " and doubtful invasion." What answer, we beg trebly none with so little 3UCCeSi. i " seri- to know, Cou ld the c ourt of Russia give, -to an /thous indoesi doclipe" has been applied to it in address like -this , The end of the It ess ; ati the fullest extent, F Ti n s tracts, which were put)- people wotdd F be gained ; there Would be no nt the time of; the' Bullion Report aloneove re preteoee for pl ea ding :the intemperance, o f t h e sutrecieot to form a moderate library, to say no national spirit, itt exteutiation of hostile move thiug of the debates and : discussions, the sub- merits against Moldavia ; or if a negative were re ject has undergOrte in various other; W ays. Vet turned to such representations trout, Eitgland, the what teal light , have eloquence and learning cloven foot of old Catherine would discover thrown upou . the . . ttobject 7 '?, Hardly. any two itself, and Europe, taught by r e' perience, would speakers or writers appear to agree upon it ; and be at trot loss how to act. ' he settleme nt er as when Parliament tenders the question, the corn. posed for Greece is said to be, that the islands and peninsula composing bor territory shall be governed by a constitutional Monarch, not con nected immediately with any of the greater Powers ; but to be under the joint protection of England, Austria, and Russia, the most contigu ous Christian States. NEW BANKING ACTS. The measures proposed by Government to pre. vent the recurrence of the evils under which the commercial world is now suffering, so far as they can be traced to the state of the currency, are (as has repeatedly been mentioned) two in num ber--a suppression of the small notes, and an extension of the basis of banking establishments. In order that these two measures may pass the Legislature with the least possible delay, one of them originates in each house of Parliament, so that both may be advanced in their stages at the same time. The small note bill originates in the House of (;ommons, in consequence of the reso lution of Monday ; and the bill for carrying the other measure into effect has been already intro duced into the House of Lords, and printed. As the latter is of great importance, from the inte rests which it effects, and embraces provisions which cannot be distinctly understood from the debates of the House, we shall give an abstract of its contents. The preamble recites the Act which establishes the privi lege of the Bank of England to limit the number of partners in all other banking establishments in England to six, and the consent of the Bank to relax that right, so far as to permit establish ments having a greater number of .partners to be erected within 65 miles of the metropolis. It then enacts that corporate bodies or partner ships, consisting of more than'six in number, may carry on business as bankers at any place ex ceeding 65 miles from London, in like manner as co-partnerships of less titan six now do, pro vided such persona have no establishment as bankers in London, and that every member of such corporation be liable for the payment of all bills or notes issued, or sums borrowed by the cor poration to which he belongs. W.o copy the following provisions, as they stand in the bill, because they contain regulations which it is of general interest to know " Provided always, and be it further enacted, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to enable or authorize any such corporation, or any persons so carrying cm the,trade or bpsiness of banters, either by arty member of or person belonging to any such corporation, or any person united with others in covenants or partnerships, or otherwise in such trade or business, or iry any agent or agents, or any other person or persons on behalf of any such corpora tion or persons so carrying on the trade or business of bankers, to pay, ii , sue, or re-issue, at London, or within 65 miles thereof any bill or note of such corporation or persons carry ing on such trade or business of bankers, which shall be pay able to bearer on demand, or payable at any less time than six months from the borrowing ofthe money therein mentioned, or any bank post bill ; nor to draw upon any partner, agent, err other person or persons who may be resident in London, or within 65 miles thereof, any bill of exchange which shall be pay able on demand, or which shall be for a less amount than sitt. ; nor shall any thing in this Act contained extend or be construed to' extend, to enable, or authorize any such corporations, or per sons *0 carrying on such trade or business of bankers, or any membff or agent, or agents of tiny such corporations or per sons, to borrow, owe, or take up in London, or within ti .. miles thereof, any SUM or sums of money on any bill or promissory note of any Such corporation or persons, payable on demand, or at any less time than six months from the borrowing there of, or to make or issue tiny, bill or bills of exchange, or pro missory rdte, or notes of suchcorporation or persons, contrary to s the, provisions of the above recited Act of the 30th and 40th years of King Oeorge 111., save as provided by this, Act in, that behalf. ,‘ Provided also, and be it further enacted, tha nothing itt this Art contained shill extend or be construed t o extend to pr6udiee, alter, or affect any of the rights, 'powers, or pri vileges of the said governor and Company of the Bank of England, - except ash the said exclusive privilege of the said' Governor and Company are by this Act specially, altered and varied. " And be it further enaCted, that between the 25th day of March iicany year, and the 2fithday Of March following, an' account or return shall be made out by the Secretary or some other officer of every such corporation or copartnership so earrV. ing (Ai die business of banking under the provisions of this act, ' and shall be signed by such secretary or other officer, and shall be veilied by the oath of 'such _officer taken before any justice of the peace (and which oath any Justice of the peace i s h ere . liy aulhorized and empowered to administer) according to the fond contained' in the schedule marked A. to this act annexed; -mid in every such account or return there,shall be set forth the true oame or firm of such corporation or co-partnership, and also 'the names and places of abode of all the members of such corporation, °rot' all partners concerned or engaged in such co partnership, as the same respectively appear on the books of such corporation or co-partnership, and the firm and name of every bank or banks established or to be eatiblialfed by, such corporation or co-partnership, each and every Of whord shall respectively be considered as a public officer of such ear.' oration or co-partnerrhip, and the title' of office or other de= seription of every such individttal respectively in the'name of any one of whom such corporatioo or co-partnership shall sue and be sued as hereinafter provided, and alad the name of every Own au ll place where any such bills or notes shall be issued by any wept corpOratiOn or co. : partnership, or by any agent or agents of any such corporation or co-partnership ; and every such account o r r eta r d Shall be'produeed at the Stamp-office in London, and WI entry and registry thereof 'shall' be made in a book or books to be kept fur that purpose at the said Stamp. office, by sonic person or persons to be appointed for that 'pun. pose by the Commissioners of StampAuttes. " Anti be it further enacted, that whenever any entry and re gister of the name or firm of any suck corporation or copartner ship shall be made at the Stanip-offiee in manner aforesaid, at any time between the 25th day of Mardi in any year and the 25th day of March following, a certificate of such entry or re gistry shall be granted by the said Commissioners of Stamp% or by some person deputed and authorised by' the said Com missioners for that purpose, to the corporation or copartner ship by or on whose behalf such entry or registry shall be made; and such certificate shall be written on vellum, parch ment, er paper, in England ; and a separate and distinct tificate on a separate piece , of vellum, parchment, or paper, with a separate and distinct Mammalian be granted for and in respect of every town and place Where any such bill and note shall be issued by any suc h c or p orat i on or co p artn e rs hip, or by any agent or agents for or o n acc ou n t of such corporation or copartnership ; and every such certificate shall :specify the proper firm, styl e , title, or name of such corporation or copart nership under which such notes are to' be issued, and the Christian and, surname and place of abode, - and title of o ff ice, Or other d e s cr ip t i on , o f t h e severa l individuals named respec tively as the public officers of suchcorporation or eePartriership in the 'name of tiny one of whom such corporation or copartner ship *hall sue and be .sued ; and every certificate shall be dated on the day .on which the same shall be granted, and shall h ave e ff ect - and continue in force 'from the day of the date thereof until the 25th day of March following, both in clusive, and no longer, and shall be sufficient evident of file appointment and authority of such public officers respec tively. " Provided also, and he it enacted, that it shill be lawful for the secretary or other officer of any. such corporation or coPart. nerahip, as occasion may require from time to time, in the year ending on the 25tli day of 1 areh,lB2fi, and in any succeeding year, without obtaining any further certificate Mt such year, and without payment of any further stamp duty for such yea:, to make out upon oath, in manner hereinbefore directed, an'ac. count Or r,turn of the name or names of any new or additional public officer or public officers, and also the - utile or names of any person or persons who may have ceased to be members of suc h corporation o r copartnership ; and also the name or names Of any person or persons who may have become a memiser or members of such corporation or. copartnership, either, idaddi s lion to (37 ii: the place or , stead of any form er mem b er or mem bers, in the form expressed is the schedule hereunto annexed - , m a r ked let. ; and such accounts or returns shall be front time to • time jyroduced, and entered or registered at the Stamp-office in Prinr e d London, in like m""t-'r hereinbefore requited with respect IlAtutoW Scnoor.,--The town of harrow hit! . lately been thrown into the utmost state of cone sterttation, owing to the sudden disappearance and unforeseen defalcation of Mr.MAKK Ditca'r) the second master of the school, and who has been above 40 years in the Harrow establislyi ment ; anti also of his son, M r . JOHN D VA Y 1 an' other master of the school ; both of whom quilled the town by night, leaving e n o r m ous debts behin d theta ; hut they have sinc e b een ar r e sted, and are both tit present in prison. Th e i r debts in the town and neighbourhood of 'ferrety are estimated at upwards of 40,0001., and the tradespeople of the tow-ti are almost to an individual more e less staerers, and many entirely ruined ; there have been executions in several of the trades'. people's houses ; the losses to some intlivida o , are said to be Immense—one butcher alone i 2,700.; a linen-draper, 7 1 0001., a grea t part of which was money tent. There are brok ers bills of sales by auction, on th e h ou s e s of bot h ' the Drurysi 'The 'prang gentlemen of ti school under their care, at 'masters„ and of course residing in houses, ult./riled hom e ,' to' their friends 'on 'the first disclosure °L the event ; but Most of them have just again C °l " back under other. masters. Nlr. Evans has bee" elected by& aevernors, and has been 66 rung in," as it is culled, second master of the Sch °ol in the roomer thwelder• Drury. The situation o f the tradespeople of Harrow is truly miserahle: even the servants belo ng i ng to th e e stabli s hm ent of the two sDrutys are left with their ~rages paid. Scarcely allay passes that some at Harrow is not a rres ted far debt, or an e xec s u : tion put into som e h ous e, ar i s i ng ' ou t of this I tressing event. Th e townspeople now beg:dtll to wonder hew the Dr ur y s cou ld h ave obtainede" -; much Credit, or got so ext e nsively into debt , they were never supposed to be wealthy ; but their astonishment comes to o l at e. People are also sur prised how those t wo p ersons cou ld h a ve occa sion to get into debt, as the.Stip en dS o f t h e boy S " de their Charge were known to he paid poo ctun ir r once e- quarter, and they could, t/lerefore, s oe , no loss in that Way. It is new, however, u nde o. Stood (hut for the truth of this I cannot ieti c that both the father and ton lived at a most eX travagata rate, and played very high at Whis t ! .• (Timer.) COA I. Fri:. I. Adair's, 33s 6d-Burdon l 33s—Dean's Pritroqe, 315 O." - Forest Main, 32s— 11 eat0n,35&34,1-11eldntrn Alain, 35 4 na:: Huly well, .3ls--Killin " t, 3d. 31s 3 1 , 3 '"' 325--Old Walker. 31s 3tl- 7 1/,•law, 31-.—Percy East. ;-"Ig; Shipeote, 32a 6d--Townley, 3,6 35s lam, 34s—Walls End Bell and Qo,3ostid—ll'alls End Bewic . 4 and Co. 37i 9d—Walls End 11roCi . n's, Green's, 323 6d--Wnlls End llolspur, 34s 3(1---Wail' m , Newmareh, 35s—Walls End Northumberland, 3 5 5 -- VI., End Riddell's, 3.5 s 6‘l, 3iis—V,alli E n d Russell's, 355, Walls End Met:-.1, 33s—Pelaw 'rntder, Ms—Coy/125 1 . I.W Hartley, 32s Oa—Russell's I,yon's Main, 3rts--Wall s br Eden's, 31s Cd--Walls End Lyon's, 36s _Walls 13rid- Lt. ton, 40s ! id—Walls End Stewarti, 44)5-13u9se 1 1'* Walls End, Ms tld.—Sl::Ts at market, 744—ShiP$ '" s.i. —Unsold, 19 }. 111 it TBS. 11 1 On Tuesday, the 14th inst ., a t 11 i g hbary-place, 1 1111 ' foil, of Or tiutileitltofllai son. in Upper Thn'Tbßugh 4 tre" "t ' the 13dY Frederick J. Prescott, Esq., of daughter. fJ. On Sunday, the 111th hilt at Liretpcol , the LAY ° Turner, Esq., of a daughter.' . ItIARECIED. ~,, tit/ On the 7th inst., at St. ti 111 'lawyer-square,. 1,;_.,,4. Rev, I%lr. Napean, G. P.' Vt - I , ;.:Geld, to illiss Charlotte Con", (laughter of W. Corpe, !Mount-stre2t: ' • • setor la At Kingston, Surrey, Mr. sauwei u rea yes, to LAak (laughter of the late Rev. tVilliam Jarvis illly i . : , ‘I•" . .....---" DIED, rk 6 ' On the . 26th ult., Richard Mathew s, Esq 4 OM:' of of At after a tew days ti e orge Otyan,. Pss' es Great Russell -street, Illoolusbuty-s9uare. -eat c)f On the Cth Inst., ku(lderay, Ltt !Listings, in the fAth ). 7e her age Mrs. Elizabeth David,on wife of the late Lie° 2l " vidsen,'Esq. and .biished tL t: No. 112‘ Strand. by J. ,it the 8 .itsTAllO, FrICE to the original account or return to be made for any such yogi in behalf of Audi corporation or copartnership. " And belt further enacted, that all actions and suits, and also all petitioni to found any sequestration or any commission of bankruptcy against any person or persons, who may be at any time irdebted to any such copartnership carrying on business under the provisions of this Act, and all proceedings at law or in equity under any sequestration or commission of bankruptcy, and all other proceedings at law or in equity, to be commenced or in stituted for, or on behalf of any such copartnership against any person or persona, bodies politic or corporate, or others, whether members of such copartnership or otherwise, for recovering any debts or enforcing any claims or demands due to such copartner ship, or for any other matter relating to the concerns of such copartnership, shall and lawfully may, froni and after the pasts ing of this Act, be commenced or instituted and prosecuted in the name of any one of the public officers nominated as aforesaid for the time being of such copartnership, as the .nominal plains tiff or petitioner for and on behalf of such copartnership; and that all actions or suits, and proceedings at law or inequity, to be commenced or instituted by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, or others, whether members of such co partnership or otherwise, against such copartnership, shall and lawfully may be commenced, instituted, and prosecuted against any one of the public officers, nominated as aforesaid for the time being of such copartnernership ; as the nominal defendant for and on behalf of such copartnership ; and that all indict ments, informations, and prosecutions by or on behalf of such copartnership, for any stiatling or embezzlement of any money, goods, effects, bills, notes, securities, or other property of or belonging to, such copartnership, or for any fraud, forgery, crime, or offence "committed against or with intent to injure or defraud such. copartnership, shall and lawfully may be had, preferred and carried on in the name of any one of the public officers nominated as aforesaid for the time being of such co partnership ; and that in all indictments rend infinmations to be had or preferred 'by or on behalf of such copartnership against any person or persons whomsoever, notwithstanding such person or persons may happen to be a member or mem bers of such copartnership, it shall be lawful and sufficient to state the money, goods, effects, bills, notes, securities, or other property of such copartnership, to be the money, goods, effects, bills, notes, securities, or other property of any one of the public officers nominated as aforesaid for the time being of such copartnership i and that any forgery, fraud, crime, or other offence committed against or ,with intent to injure or de fraud any such copartnership, shall and lawfully may, in such indictment or indictments, notwithstanding as aforesaid; be ha or stated to have been committed against or with intent to injure or defraud any one of the public officers nominated as aforesaid for the time being of such copartnership ; and;.enr offender or offenders may thereupon be lawfully convicted for any such forgery, fraud, crinie, or offence; and thatsitt al other allegations, indictments, informations, or other proceed-. lugs of any kind whatsoever, in which it otherwise might or_ would have been necessary to state the names of the peninm composing such copartnership, it shall and may be lawful and sufficient to state the name of any one of the public office" nominated as aforesaid for the time being of such copartner; ship ; and the death, resignation, removal, or any act of sum public officer, shall • not abate or prejudice any such action , suit, indictment, information, prosecution, or other proceedi n g' commenced against or by or on behalf of such copartnershiP• but the same may be.continued, prosecuted, and carried on ?rt the name of any of the public officers of such copartnership for the time being." The enactments which follow direet the mode of lonc eedin i g against the banking partnerships above described, and Be l e t t l e s the effect of the decrees or orders of a court of equitY , or `. 1 , - judgments of a court of law, against the public officers of 'e firms which they represent.